Dr. Miller is a Professor of Neurology at UCSF where he holds the A.W. & Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Chair. He is the clinical director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center (MAC), and directs the NIH-funded program project on frontotemporal dementia (FTD) called Frontotemporal Dementia: Genes, Images and Emotions, the UCSF Alzheimer’s Disease Continue Reading »

Chronic exposure to drugs of abuse causes several cellular and behavioral adaptations such as tolerance, dependence, and sensitization. The main goal of my laboratory is to understand the synaptic properties of neurons in brain areas relevant to drug addiction, such as the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and the nucleus accumbens (NAcc). We have recently Continue Reading »

Dr. Kalkstein received his Bachelor’s Degree from Cornell University and obtained his MD and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Miami, School of Medicine. During his studies, Dr. Kalkstein won numerous awards, including full medical school tuition scholarship for the MD/PhD program at the University of Miami, a graduate student travel award, the Continue Reading »